Last week we posted the declaration from the mayor of Upper Nazareth, a largely-Jewish city outside Nazareth, that he would resist Palestinians moving into the city– because the “innocent belief in the message of coexistence… posed a grave danger to the very existence of a Jewish community in the Galilee.” Palestinians would drive Jews away, said Mayor Shimon Gafsou; “it is time to guard our house.”
His statements drew condemnation. And Gafsou has now responded on Facebook. Thanks to Ofer Neiman, here is the translation from the Hebrew. I heard an echo of George Wallace’s famous line from 1963, “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
A Haaretz article, published this week, claims I am a racist, and the reader comments are well-filtered, to generate a presumed public opinion which chastises me. And what’s all the fuss about? It’s about me declaring once more what is known to everyone: I as a mayor have acted decidedly and unequivocally, to preserve upper Nazareth as a Jewish city for ever and ever. For this they are calling me a racist, a fascist, a thug. [They] are planning a demonstration by a left wing group in front of my house [in order] to arrest me…
Haaretz, Israel Hayom (*), [MK] Ahmad Tibi, [MK] Ilan Gilon – they can all scream their lungs out. The residents of Upper Nazareth have come to reside in a Jewish city, and they are determined to keep it that way. We are the mountain people, strong and solid. No one will intimidate us! with courage and perseverance we shall keep guarding our Upper Nazareth, our home!
Aw, poor ol’ ‘no Christmas trees’ on his watch Shimon Gafsou! How can those fools at Haaretz call him a racist and/or fascist thug! He’s so sure he’s not. Maybe he’s just an ‘ethnic chauvinist’? Same thing, different label?
So funny. Wonder if the likes of the author of Portnoy’s Complaint who targeted the likes of Lindbergh later, after puking up his dumb shiksa longing, has anything left in his tank to take on the likes of this Nazareth mayor? I doubt it. Oh my, American literary circles will just have to deal with it, eh?
More anectdotal evidence that Zionist do indeed believe themselves to be exceptional beings and thereby racists to the core. This is also a prejudiced claim to make but a sentiment Wallace would have approved– before his transformation in his final years as a repentant sinner. The odds that Zionist will one day accept the demonized Palestinians as their equal are pretty low.
“And what’s all the fuss about? It’s about me declaring once more what is known to everyone: I as a mayor have acted decidedly and unequivocally, to preserve upper Nazareth as a Jewish city for ever and ever.”
I hear you, Bro! What is with these people? You are doing nothing more than implementing the Zionist agenda which those hypocrites at Haaretz refuse to see! I am sure that if Mr BG were still alive he would be hailing you as a hero and pining a medal to your, no doubt, amble chest. You are doing what any good Zionist Jew should so, keeping that Zionist train rolling down the tracks and God help anyone standing in the way!
Ben Dunkelman, wherever you are, this is your fault!
● RE: Last week we posted the declaration from the mayor of Upper Nazareth, a largely-Jewish city outside Nazareth, that he would resist Palestinians moving into the city– because the “innocent belief in the message of coexistence… posed a grave danger to the very existence of a Jewish community in the Galilee.” Palestinians would drive Jews away, said Mayor Shimon Gafsou; “it is time to guard our house.” ~ Weiss
● CHARLES MONTGOMERY “MONTY” BURNS (OF SPRINGVILLE) SEZ:
● ALABAMA GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE (1963 Inaugural Address ~ January 14, 1963 ~ Montgomery, Alabama):
SOURCE – http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html
● Wallace’s 1963 Inaugural Address @- Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace's_1963_Inaugural_Address
● George Wallace’s 1963 Inaugural Speech [full speech] – http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/inauguralspeech.html
● George Wallace – Segregation forever.mp4 [VIDEO, 01:06] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLDn7MjbF0